Raphael Ahrens

I'm an open source enthusiast since the day my Windows machine had a total crash in 2008.
The crash was caused by a driver problem of the motherboard. Back then I had some Linux experience from my education, so I switch completely to Ubuntu.

The more I worked with Ubuntu I started to tweak it to my liking and in the end I had my personal minimalistic setup with

a personal Desktop based on Openbox, SLiM and tint2.

ZSH as my interactive shell

and vim as my standard editor

With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 I switched my desktop to FreeBSD 8.1 and was surprised to see, that it was much easier to get my personal setup running on FreeBSD than on Ubuntu.